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Wikileaks has gotten away for quite some time with presenting itself as a transparency organization. in your view, was it ever or did it change into something else over time? >> maybe in the very beginning there were people involved with wikileaks who did see it as an organization that was trying to bring radical transparency to governments. but it was always in balance, it always focused on more free governments. the more closed a government was, the less likely it was to be targeted by wikileaks and that includes governments like russia. i think over time we've seen people move away from wik...

Campaign is not just complicit in these activities, but they are in active communications and actively working with them. they didn't say everything, they didn't come back all the time, but you started seeing effects. jew assange would send an e-mail, no response would go back, but what he asked for would come into play in the campaign. >> even down to the fact that the messages that don junior released himself after the article came out, the times he responded. but even when he didn't reply back to what wikileaks was suggesting he should do, he would sometimes do it. wikileaks said, you shoul...

Election? challenge them. you know, don't give in. why would a transparency organization want to sew chaos and create a constitutional crisis in the u.s.? >> that makes sense what you're saying and what your reporting shows. let me throw a different argument at you. you know, they say on the internet no one knows whether you're a pet dog, famous new yorker cartoon, i don't know if you've seen it. >> i'm a pet cat on the internet. >> no one knows you're a pet cat. the argument being, well, maybe whoever was behind this twitter account was just messing around, or trying to say things to mess wit...

If they lose to challenge the election results and call them rigged? i mean, what interest does a transparency organization have in that? or that they are asking -- this was the most stunning part. that was the most stunning part but the most comical part, now that your father has been elected, can you please lean on australia and make assange the ambassador from australia to washington. what is going on there? there's no -- i think at this point there's -- i mean, there's nothing left of wikileaks' credibility. >> a lot of frightening really big questions there. steve schmidt, i want to go ba...

>> what i said as i believe he believes that, and it's very important for somebody to believe. i believe he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i am with our agencies. >> president trump added he trusts the intelligence agencies with their current leadership, the leadership he put in. while he didn't definitively say that he thinks president putin is not telling the truth when he says he did not meddle in the u.s. election, it certainly appears to be, bret, as close as he's ever come to saying that. >> bret: john roberts traveling with th...